FADE IN:
EXT. FOUNTAIN AVENUE APARTMENT BUILDING—STREET—COURTYARD. DAY.
We are outside a Mediterranean Villa-styled apartment building. LAPD COPS hold back a growing throng of gleefully gesticulating GAWKERS near the curb.
A LOS ANGELES COUNTY CORONER WAGON pulls up. TWO CORONER’S ATTENDANTS, both in their 20s, jump out the cab and fetch the morgue gurney from the rear.
Title: September 8, 1965. Hollywood, California.
The TWO CORONER’S ATTENDANTS are wave through the throng by a ROOKIE COP. They wheel the morgue gurney through the courtyard and enter…
INT. FOUNTAIN AVENUE APARTMENT. DAY.
…a charming ground-floor apartment.
EARL (V.O.)
I don't understand it. She had
everything to live for.
The TWO CORONER’S ATTENDANTS wheel the gurney past the exhausted, grim-faced artist manager, EARL MILLS,
